Improvement in blacking-box holders



FFICE.

lNATHANIEL H. TALBOT, OF NORTH EASTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BLACKlNG-BOX HOLDERS.

Speccation forming part of Letters Patent No. 117,481,dated July 25, 1871.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, NATHANIEL H. TALBOT, of North Easton, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful BlackingBox Holder; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanyingl drawing, of Which- Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a front View of it. Fig. 4 represents it as applied to a blacking-box.

It consists of a piece of wire bent or coiled in a circle one or more times at its middle, and with the two branches or portions of the wire crossed in one another, and curved as jaws, to extend about and embrace a blacking-box on its periphery.

An ear is applied to each branch at its middle, so as to extend therefrom underneath the bottom of the box, in order to support the box when pressed downward.

ln the drawing, the wire is represented at W as bent in the form as mentioned or described,

the circular coil or coils shown atA constituting an open handle, the branches or jaws being exhibited at B B and the ears at C C. The handle serves as a spring to cause the jaws to grasp the box with a rm hold, and also as a means of hanging the holder, or such and box, on a nail or hook when extended from a wall or partition. Y

The said holder serves to enable a person to support a blacking-box holder by his hand applied to the handle of the holder rather than directly to the box, and thus saves him from'liability of soiling his hand by the blackin g which is apt to gather on the periphery or rim of the box.

I claim- The blacking-box holder. made as described, viz., of a wire, WV, bent in the form as shown and explained, and provided with ears O O fixed to and arranged with its jaws, in manner substantially as specified.

NATHANIEL H. TALBOT.

Vitnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW. 

